submarines

MURMANSK : Russia’s Smolensk nuclear-powered submarine has conducted a successful test launch of a cruise missile that hit the designated target in the Barents Sea, the Northern Fleet’s press service said on Wednesday. “From the underwater position, a Granit missile was fired against a combined sea-based target at a distance of about 400 kilometers,” a…

Between major decisions on a new deployment to Afghanistan and a wholly new Persian Gulf crisis, not to mention the boiling crises in Syria and North Korea, Washington strategists can be forgiven for putting China’s naval buildup on the back burner. As Beijing fills the “near seas”—and now the “far seas”—with new frigates, destroyers and…

Chinese state-controlled media is hyping the Chinese version of a western invention called a “rim-driven thruster” as the engine that will make the new nuclear powered attack submarines (SSNs) of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) the best on the planet. Chinese engineers are reported to be planning a rim-driven thruster specifically being developed as…

Russia might deploy two fantastic nuclear submarines specifically built to survive the deadly cold of the Arctic Circle, and one of these submarines will be the first outfitted with “wings” like an aircraft, that is, if it’s got the money to do so. The advent of these boats specialized to reconnoiter the seafloor of the…

China’s military officials have released last week a propaganda video of the country’s nuclear ballistic missile submarines, believed to be the homegrown Type 092 vessels. According to Daily Mail, the footage that was aired on China’s military channel Ba Yi TV captured soldiers carrying out some drills on the vessel and launching a ballistic missile…

China’s new submarine factory on the Yellow Sea will start producing nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) beginning this year. Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industrial Corporation (BSHIC), which is the only nuclear submarine maker in China, is reportedly just doing some finishing touches on the new plant. The site’s new assembly area measures over 430,000 square feet, providing…